The Center-Right Opposition Would Win a Free and Fair Venezuelan Presidential Election

Venezuelans vote today in the presidential election, amidst repression by the Socialists who have ruled for more than 20 years after being elected and then becoming increasingly authoritarian. The united center-right opposition, led by former diplomat Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, would win if the election were free and fair, and may still prevail nonetheless, but whether the dictatorial President would concede power is doubtful. I have been posting of the harassment of the opposition, including arrests of campaign officials, and various other repressive acts while Venezuela suffers tyranny, corruption, inflation, energy shortages, and crime. I had posted that the European Union’s election observers were denied entry. Now Brazil and Colombia have withdrawn their election observers after the Socialist dictatorship criticized the electoral systems of Venezuela’s South American neighbors. And Venezuela rejected the entry of two Chilean Senators to serve as observers. Under the anti-American Socialists, Venezuela has been close to Communist Cuba, the imperialist Russian Federation and Islamist terrorist-sponsoring Iran as part of what I call the Axis of Rogues.